'Show me,' said he, 'one trace of Arab government in all Palestine.

Who owns the land ?' he asked them.
'Arabs!' said they.

'Yet to whom has the country been given ?' he shouted.

'To the Jews!' they answered; and he grew silent for a while, like a teacher whose class has only given half the answer to a question until presently one man growled out, 'To the sword with the Jews in the name of Allah!' and the others echoed that which satisfied him, for he smiled, nevertheless not using those words himself.

And presently he continued: "'We in this room are men of enlightenment.